wpa_supplicant 2.11 breaks wifi on raspberry

[zebul666]

After upgrading, I don"t have any wifi connection on rpi0 2 or rpi3b.

I have to downgrade to a homemade [b]wpa_supplicant-2:2.10-1[/b], (nothing in my pacman's cache)

Works better now

The log was like that:

[code]wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: Trying to associate with SSID 'XXXXXX'
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: Associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=FR
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=FR
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: Authentication with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out.
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: Added BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx into ignore list, ignoring for 10 seconds
wpa_supplicant[394]: nl80211: send_event_marker failed: Source based routing not supported
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason=3 locally_generated=1
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ignore list count incremented to 2, ignoring for 10 seconds
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="XXXXXX" auth_failures=11 duration=120 reason=CONN_FAILED
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=USER type=COUNTRY alpha2=FR
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-REENABLED id=0 ssid="XXXXXX"
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ignore list count incremented to 3, ignoring for 60 seconds
wpa_supplicant[394]: wifi0: Removed BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx from ignore list (clear) [/code]

what is weird is the line "nl80211: send_event_marker failed: Source based routing not supported" which is there when it works ok

[zebul666]

It seems a patch is needed for broadcom wifi driversn and archlinux upstream remove it, by error (?).

It should be fixed in wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-2

[mdevaev]

My PiKVM users experience a massive Wi-Fi failure after updating wpa_supplicant on all Raspberry models with linux-rpi kernel. It looks like this:

[code]
Jul 27 11:15:24 pikvm systemd-networkd[509]: wlan0: Connected WiFi access point: xxx (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)
Jul 27 11:15:24 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: Associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Jul 27 11:15:24 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0
Jul 27 11:15:24 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=CY
Jul 27 11:15:24 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=CY
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: Authentication with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out.
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: Added BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx into ignore list, ignoring for 10 seconds
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: nl80211: send_event_marker failed: Source based routing not supported
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason=3 locally_generated=1
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: BSSID xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ignore list count incremented to 2, ignoring for 10 seconds
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="xxx" auth_failures=3 duration=56 reason=CONN_FAILED
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
Jul 27 11:15:34 pikvm wpa_supplicant[473]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
Jul 27 11:15:38 pikvm kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0x100e fail, reason -52
...
[/code]

Upstream Arch removed a lot of patches during the update, maybe that's the point:make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/wpa_supplicant/-/commit/453cde53d808839ddc5362fc973784b3e32d3256', '', ' class="postlink"')

[pudge]

I have the same problem that wpa_supplicant-2:2-11-1 broke the WiFi on both aarch64 and x86_64 computers.

wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-2 apparently fixed x86_64 computers but not all aarch64 computers.

results of testing version wpa_supplicant-2:2-11-2
RPi 4b WiFi does not work
RPi 5b WiFi does not work
Pinebook Pro WiFi does not work

RPi 400 WiFi WORKS!!

go figure. Maybe RPi 400 uses a different WiFi chip?
RPi 4b and RPi 5b the best I can determine uses the Cypress CYW43455 WiFi chip
Pinebook Pro the best I can determine uses the AMPAK AP6256 WiFi chip
RPi 400 I was unable to find any specs listing the WiFi chip being used.

Anyone know what WiFi chip the RPi 400 uses?

Pudge

[bloke]

same here, on rpi4

both
wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz

breaks wifi. downgrading below these works.

[opotonil]

Same trouble here (Wandboard with "brcmfmac4330-sdio") with "wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-2".

Seems only 1 patch was re-added:
- 0007-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch

But with "wpa_supplicant-2:2.11-1" 8 patches was removed:
- 0005-OpenSSL-Drop-security-level-to-0-with-OpenSSL-3.0-wh.patch
- 0007-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch
- 0008-AP-guard-FT-SAE-code-with-CONFIG_IEEE80211R_AP.patch
- 0009-OpenSSL-Apply-connection-flags-before-reading-certif.patch
- 0012-WNM-Choose-the-best-available-BSS-not-just-the-first.patch
- 0013-wpa_supplicant-Fix-wpa_supplicant-configuration-pars.patch
- 0014-Abort-ongoing-scan.patch
- 0015-Override-ieee80211w-from-pmf-for-AP-mode-in-wpa_supp.patch

And "iwd" doesn't seem to work either.

[SaMSoN-X]

I updated ArchLinux ARMv7h (July 2024) on my Raspberry Pi 4.

After update WiFi not worked.

Solution: downgrade package wpa_supplicant to version wpa_supplicant-2:2.10-8

1. Download wpa_supplicant-2:2.10-8 (this package of this version is no longer available in the repositories).
I uploaded this package to the cloud: make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://disk.yandex.ru/d/cHGXeQ1J9HX0nA', '', ' class="postlink"')

2. Copy this package to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

3. Downgrade this package in OS:

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
sudo pacman -U wpa_supplicant-2:2.10-8-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

(NOTE: don't forget about the colon ":" in the file name.)


I wrote this post to help others, because I struggled for two days myself.

[bxabi]

yes it is broken on raspberry pi 4 also.
I'm searching how to download the last working package.

[opotonil]

[quote="bxabi"]
yes it is broken on raspberry pi 4 also.
I'm searching how to download the last working package.
[/quote]

"https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=17008"

[Oznerol256]

Same here too. Very annoying on headless machines